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Mark Haselgrove1, Jasper Robinson, Andrew Nelson
1School of Psychology, Nottingham University, Nottingham, UK. mark.haselgrove@nottingham.ac.uk
Abstract:
An autoshaping experiment with pigeons and three appetitive Pavlovian conditioning experiments with rats investigated the course of an ambiguous-feature discrimination in which trials with stimuli A and BC were followed by food, and trials with B and AC were not. The discrimination between A and B was acquired more rapidly than the discrimination between BC and AC in all experiments. Furthermore, the acquisition of conditioned responding with A was faster than that with BC for the three rat experiments. The results of these experiments are discussed in terms of elemental and configural theories of associative learning.
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